Bug 77116

Summary: Allow easy way of picking Jabber resources for contacts
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Arcady Genkin <agenkin>
Component: Jabber PluginAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: opensource
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.40.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Arcady Genkin 2004-03-09 21:28:28 UTC 
Version:           0.8.0 (using KDE 3.2.0,  (3.0))
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.25-i386-cdf-workstation

When sending a message to a Jabber contact, I would like to be able to easily pick the resource for the contacts that are logged in from more than one connection.  For instance, if a contact bob@jabber.org was connected from both home and from work, I would like to be able to see in the contact list the foolowing two resources (of course, the list of resources should be easy to collapse):

- Bob
  |- home
  |- work

Then, to send a message to bob@jabber.org/home I would simply click on the "home" resource above, and likewise for bob@jabber.org/work.

The current method of choosing the profile is not very convenient, because (1) I need to memorize which of the profiles has been chosen previously (maybe a few days ago), and (2) it takes one right click and four drags to change a resource.

Many thanks in advance!
Comment 1 Till Gerken 2004-03-09 22:41:31 UTC 
You can choose the resource either in the contact list or from the chatwindow's member list by right-clicking on the contact and then selecting "Select Resource".
Comment 2 Till Gerken 2004-03-09 22:49:24 UTC 
Sorry, misunderstood you. Reopening.

Not sure if this can be done, it definitely depends on support from libkopete - currently no subitems to a contact are allowed.
Comment 3 Arcady Genkin 2004-03-11 21:08:23 UTC 
IMO "subcontact" is a preferred way to display multiple jabber resources for a contact.  One other way would be, perhaps, to display a separate contact for each of the connected resources.  So, in my example, this would mean that there will be two online users in my contact list: bob@jabber.org/home and bob@jabber.org/work.   If this were easier to implement, I would settle for this. ;^)

My main concern is that it should be easier to send a message to a particular contact/resource combination.
Comment 4 Mathieu Jobin 2004-06-22 20:05:39 UTC 
what about a ComboBox in a message window that list the Ressources with their priority ?
Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:28:22 UTC 
Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.